An eerie stillness settled over the early TV ratings reports this morning: ABC’s Sunday-night dramas were both down from the previous week, while dependable CBS performers The Good Wife and The Mentalist hit series lows. Did the combined one-two punch of a topsy-turvy MLB playoff game and the NFL’s most storied rivalry completely swallow the night’s scripted and unscripted programming? Yes—game two of the American League National Championship and the Cowboys-Redskins game both outpaced all network competition in terms of total viewers and 18-49 ratings—but that’s only the half of it. The other half is the moaning, groaning mob that shuffled into work Monday morning having spent the previous night with the latest Walking Dead premiere, an unstoppable 16.1 million strong according to an AMC press release.